Timothy Stockman;261847 Wrote: > How would an -external- clock device give lower jitter (and thus > possible audible improvement) compared to an internal clock source? > You might be able to get better -long term- stability from an exotic > clock generator, but a decent crystal oscillator in the DAC itself has > the potential of giving the lowest jitter, regardless of how stable the > external clock is in the long term. IMHO, few, if any, possess "perfect > pitch" so perfect as to be able to detect the difference between an > exotic external clock and a decent internal crystal oscillator. > Anyway, how many recordings are made with such an exotic clock system? > I think the emphasis, both during recording and playback, should be > placed on the measurably lower jitter which an oscillator inside the > ADC/DAC can deliver to the ADC/DAC itself. This will reduce the jitter > induced "sidebands", which arguably are potentially more audible.
For one, you could generate the low-jitter clock externally and buffer the data externally and then output I2S to the DAC. If the I2S cable were short and impedance-matched, it would be just as good or better than putting the same logic inside the DAC box. This is already available. Steve N. Empirical Audio -- audioengr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audioengr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8041 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42388 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
